Next, here are my top 10 … OK, 20 … movies of the Aughts. 1. “Garden State” (2004) — I’m not going to lie: This is just a romantic fairy tale — average Joe finds true love with Natalie Portman (Portman’s character doesn’t seem to realize she looks like Natalie Portman, and she’s all the more lovable for […]
Next, here are my top 10 TV shows. Some started in the ’90s, but for this list, I am just showing the years they aired during this decade. This top 10 is front-loaded (the most recent shows ended three seasons ago), reflecting the downhill trend as the decade wore on. 1. “Once and Again” (2000-02, ABC) — Remarkably, […]
First, my top 10 entertainers. These are the people (and one fictional robot) who put a smile on my face in every project they tackled.
Sticking with the theme from my previous post, here are my No. 1 movies from the years 2000 through 2008, as I saw it at the end of each year.
I thought it might be fun to look back on my picks for “best of the year” this decade as those years were ending (mostly fun for me, but you can enjoy it too, if you want).
Time Magazine called it the “decade from hell,” but Entertainment Weekly argued, in its latest issue, what about the entertainment? However, they failed to make their own case. The Aughts really was a bad decade for mainstream entertainment. Although not, certainly, for entertainment overall. This was, after all, the decade when TV and music became […]
“An Education” is one of those movies that I can acknowledge is good, yet I didn’t particularly like it. This is because I’m starting to develop a low tolerance for watching supposedly new movies that I feel like I’ve seen many times before.
TV commentary: These are the 16 best shows that can’t be seen anywhere — not on DVD, not on the Internet and not in syndication.
Don’t mix up “Clone Wars” and “The Clone Wars.” “Clone Wars” was the spin-off fiction produced from 2002-07; it included nine collected volumes of comic books (plus 10 volumes of the lighter “Clone Wars Adventures”) and several novels, and the centerpiece was the series of short episodes that aired on Cartoon Network. Key events included […]
Why is “Glee” (8 p.m. Central Wednesdays on Fox) the first widely popular scripted music show? I’m almost certain the answer is “random chance,” but that would make for a rather short blog post, so I’m going to theorize a bit further. Here are arguments for why “Glee’s” ratings success isn’t completely out of left field: First, […]